The State Of Manufacturing In China 2020 Survey (Results & Feedback)

2020-08-03

In This Episode... What are the relationships between foreign importers and their Chinese suppliers like in 2020? Have they been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic or other reasons? To find out, we sent a survey to both our Sofeast and QualityInspection.org readers to assess the state of manufacturing in China in 2020. The results are discussed in this episode. Listen in and you may get some helpful insights that could help you anticipate possible issues that we're seeing occurring this year. Do any of our findings resonate with ...

In This Episode...

What are the relationships between foreign importers and their Chinese suppliers like in 2020? Have they been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic or other reasons?

To find out, we sent a survey to both our Sofeast and QualityInspection.org readers to assess the state of manufacturing in China in 2020.

The results are discussed in this episode. Listen in and you may get some helpful insights that could help you anticipate possible issues that we're seeing occurring this year.

Do any of our findings resonate with what you're seeing from your Chinese suppliers?

Show Notes

Start to 3:40 - Introduction. What was the survey and what were we expecting from it?

3:40 to 36:30 - Going through each of the survey's 7 questions one-by-one, providing the statistics, and feedback per point from Renaud.

36:30 to end - A quick summary. What did and didn't surprise us about the results of the survey?

Extra information you may find helpful

We mentioned some of the common problems that can be caused by working with the wrong Chinese supplier - listen to our episode about them here.
Read the survey in full and get Renaud's exclusive feedback per question in this blog post.
Don't forget, if you can't visit China right now - companies like Sofeast provide on-the-ground assistance in sourcing new suppliers, factory audits, product inspections, and much, much more!

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